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IMPERIAL P./IRLIAMENI. HOUSE OF PEERS. FRIDAY, MARCH 25. . '- Counsel were heard in the Appeal Earl - Wemysi v. Alexander Carre.. The Annual'lndemnity Bill, and Exchequer Bills.. Funding .Bi)1 went through,a Committee, and were reported without any amendment. ~ . Lord LAUDEIWALR renewed his notice of a motion respeaing Patents, which he fixed for Tuesday next. COPENHAGEN, Lord DdRNLEY , after referring to the motion and debate which took. place last night respe&ing Mr. Garlicke's dispatches, and the attack on Copen hagen, commented at large on the necessity of hav ing the whole of that correspondence before the' : nouse,' He bad obtained a copy, of it from a Mem her of the other House, .and their Lordships, it they would only glance it over, must see in how different a point of view it placed the motives of the Bsltic Expedition from that in which it had been hitherto represented by Ministers. The noble Secretary might continue to say, the majorities that san6tioned the measure had put the question to rest ; but he trusted noble Lords; would be found in that House, Who would revive it again and.agaio, mull the evils that daily flow from it be traced to their proper source. Lord ILI 11 1 7 C ESBURY begged pardon for making any observations, on so irregular a conversation as that which Was' now taking place, but he. should only'repeat, that the reason why the correspondence was produced in another place, arose solely froth circuniStances peculiar to what happened in that place„ and had no conneaien whatever with the proceedings of their Lordships' House.. Noble Lards might revive v hen they thought proper theouestion of the Baltic • Expedition, but whenever it should again be discussed, he should not shrink from con tinuing to support the expediency and necessity of that measure. JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE. Lord GI , LENvir..LE took up the idea which' of late had been frequently adverted to by many Noble Lords, viz. that of taking some measure for pro curing a more reOlar printing of the Journals of that House; together with fit Indexes to the same; and concluded with moving , an, instruct ion to that effect} to the Standing Committee Of the Journals. Lord H AWKESI3 URY most cheerfully concurred in the motion of the .Noble Baron, and promised every support on tlis, parr, and on that of his Colleagues, towards the accomplishment of that desirable objea. ORDERS IN t OUNCLI. , The Order of the .Day was then read for the third reading of the, Bill furthering the operation of these Orders, .w hen Lord GRENVJLL L rose and moved, that the Standing Order, No, be read. 'The Order be ing read accordingly, his Lordship observed, thht his moved'the reading t't that Order again, that he Might. have , an opportunity of again asserting, that hearing of Petitioners :pinst that Bill was no in fringement of that Ordor, and that lie might make good the pledge he had :given to oppose the Bill in all its wages : he Should not however now detain their Lordships with any arguibents against it, as a Noble Friend of his (1..0rd Auckland) had a number of Athendments to bring forward, on which occa sion he,sbould re-state 'what fullintr he had to urge' againot persisting in these measures. The question that the Bill be now read a third time, was then agreed to. withouka , tlivision. • i 'Lord AuoKLANn next rose to move his Amend.; meats, and began by moving that tie preamble of ; , ... the Bill be omitted. :"' 0 Lord GRatiVILLt took this occasi'on to recapitu late the, various argittnenti which het lisd'iitithieed against the Qrders in Coumil during - theVogress this Bill through the House. Lord fliwttestway contended that . nothing had yet been adduced to disprove the preArnbli2, and as orily the old arguments ha,i now been :Iffeted against the Bill, he should . not waste their Lordships tlina with a dull repetition aroa an . swers. On this and other Amendments, wb jell Were ex . aaly the, same that were proposed in (the Commit tee last 'night, very long conversations= took plaCe, in which, on the side of Government, the Lord Chancellor, .Lords, liakykesbUry, Mulg rave, West.' morland and Bathurst bore a part ; and. on 'the side of the Opposition, Lords Oyenville, Auckland, Buckingh.onshire, Grey and King. Lord Gittril.l.l: moved for an wen , .of the time limited for bringing a&ions, but this Amend ;pent ,was-neganved by 52 to 19. The Bill was then finally rissed. The. second reading ofthe Bark and Citton Bills was mdered for Wednesday. Adjourned at 12 O'CiOCk , , HOUSE OF COMMONS. 19111-Mtj XI A t.. 11 The ,ClfANClit.t.OH of the. ExcitKo.trna moved the Order of the Dkiy fdr,ealling over the Ilott , i,i, and re ported 1110 of persons absent at tli4t Ballot On. tbe.Penrnyn Petition yegterday. Somi.obje6ions haying Wen expressed. by several Members, , The aPttatcalj stated-the propriety of ,tonfortning to , the usual prat Lice of the House, hy, enforcing the Ca, wind) Would otherwitie tall into contempt. Howie was accordingly called over. :While the Gallery was shut, for the purpose of calling over the !long. the Reduced List Ott theConi ranee for the trial of the ,Penrylin Eleakill was re ported. We - Could not learn the names. The SEcitETAiot at WAR presented ccrtain Ac counts relative to the recruiting of the Arnay.. On the Motion ti the CLIANC1:14011 of the cusaurta, it was ordered, that the HOLtse,, at its living, should adjourn till Monday. SUGAR COMMITTEE. Sir JOHN •Se.tiittGitT g.tve notice, he 3would,, on 11 6 6itay, nime that the names of some "additional Orson* be annexed to the Sugar Comtpittele. Lord BINMAG thought it proper on this occa sion fo',col'the attention of the [louse to certain itateinents 'which appeared, in the public. News papers, 'purporting, that the Sugar Committee had coma to a Re - solution to recommund the prohibition of:the Use. of Grain in distill nod that tilt.. Re port, would be made in a week. ,The. Quinnaittee had entne no Resolution, s our could it kw-pre bum ed what Ittsolution they would come to. AiLhe could say was, the Committee were Wfftng the in vestigatioo.with the diligence which the ImportitnCe of the subjeCt:re - qUired, and the tida4. the trust re-; posed by tile 130USe:clemancied. He r could not say at what -Ole 'the Report; would he made, though the Cortnittee, for its own sake, would be anxious to terminate its sittings as soon as possible. He thought it right ti) say thus much, in order to correct any false or premature statements which.may have gone abroad. The SPEAKER wished to know - whether the Noble . Lord meant to institute any proceeding on- the pub lications alluded to, on the ground of their being violations of the privileges of the House. Lord 'BINNING said it certainly was his intention to call the attention of the House to the subjea.in that view. The ATTORNEY GENuttsrobtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better Execution of Warrants issued from the Court of king's Bench in England fbr the apprehension of offenders in Scotland; and for ens bling, Sheriffs taking bails to transfer the bail' bond's to his Majesty. The Bill for prohibiting the Exportation of Cotton Wool and Jesuits Bark from Ireland was read a second time and ordered to be committed on Mon day. The Irish Token Bill was read a third time and passed. The Spittxtn informed the House, that Major Vaughan Hart • had suffered the time fixed by him to elapse without entering into a recognizance on the first Of two PetitionS, presented by him against the late Tatum . fur the County of Donnegal, • Adjourned. MAILS. Alt It MD GOttellbllllll, I lanuica, i Dublin, 2. WAtCr. told. E 1 Watt:aura. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAN At TWLLV o'CLoCK. Conhols .. ... - 64 ii THE SUN. SOLEM Q1:11 °manic 'ALSIP"( AUDSAT? LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCI! 26, 1008. iris morning a Gottenburgh Mail arrived, which brings an account of the Sudden . Death of the King of Denmark on the 13th inst.—the Crown Prince was proclaimed Kingion the 16th, but there were no acclamations or demonstkations of joy on the part of the public on the occasion. The King of Swdr . , DEN has published a Proclamation, in answer to the . :one issued by Russia. r It is given at length in our 'imbiegnent Columns, and we dre convinced that our Readers will agree with us, that a more forci. ble appeal , to the understandings and' feelings of his oivii SubjeCts, and of the People of Europe, could not have been penned., A very.severe.aetion has taken place between the Swede?' and-Itussians, 'in Fintaiad, ii which the lat ter lost upwards .of &coo men ; but the former, from the inferiority of their numbers; were at length obliged to retreat. ,An Embargo has been laid upon all Russian, Prussian, and Danish Ships in the hai 'bours of Sweden. We are happy to announce the arrival, at Ply. mouth, of a part of the Fleet which was under con-, vOy of the Sirius, when'she £ll in with the two ' French Frigates, ris mentioned in our Paper of Yes- terday ; and there is reason to believe that only one of the Fleet fell into the hands of the Enemy. As General WHITELOCKE is now suffering the Punishment which a Court Martial have declared that his miseondua merited, the charaaeristie liberality of Englishmen will , not receive any gratiti. cation-by seeing that punishment aggravated by bit. ter relleations on his conduct. He has displayed a )aMentable want of skill in his profession, and he has, been punished accordingly ; but surely no him'. siderable portion of blame Must be attached to those who seleded a man for so important a command, who was in every respea so completly unfit for it. An attempt has been made, ratber byinsinuation than by assurtion, to induce the Public to - believe that the appointment of General WHITELOCKB proceeded from the predileaion of the Commander in Chief tor. that Officer, and that he, was not selected by the late Admioistration. We'assert the dire4t contrary. We Maintain .that the Commander in Chief did not recommend that Officer, but that he was appointed in consequence of the repeated solicitations of the late Secretary of State for the War Department. Sir JA MRS SAUMAREZ had yesterday a long inter view: with the Lords of the Admiralty. Admiral ROWLEY. also attended the Board yesterday: Dispatohes were received yesterday, from' the West lodic; from Admiral DAcitas, announcin g the capture o f several valuable prizes; the particu lars of ‘‘ hich will appear in this.night's Gazette. The. , with the Fleet under convoy for the East Indies, arrived at Madeira on the 27th February, and sailed wain on the 29th. The lord Duplin, BALL, 'sailed from Madeira. for i London on the 28th February. • • Thirtysix of the Fleet for the West Indies which sailed from Portsmouth on the 18th December, were 411 well on the 17th January,- in . lat. Q 5. long. 34. His Majesty's Ship panderer and three other Ships of War in company. Yesterday a Court of DireCtors was held, at the East India House, when Capt. Col.-Liss was sworn into the command of the Ship Travers, consigned to _ MadraS and Bengal.—The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Wednesday next. • ' • GOTTENBUI?GN MAIL. bt CLARATION, ISSUED 'BY THE KING OP SWEDEN. " That the Russian Troops on 'the 21 st;;:tiLlast February • invaded Finland was first made known to his Majesty by Telegraphic Dispatch, and soon after Confirmed. by a Proclamation, issued on the part of his Imperial Russian Majesty, and prOfuiely scat tered 4hrotigh the Swedish Provinces, , inviting the people tosedition and revolt. " A rupture made without any previous declara tiOn of War ; nay, without one single grievance ing stated, commenced with treachery, and led on by a traitor to his native Country, (t) is an event of which but few precedents exist, and which cannot but excite indignation- and ' dis gust on the face of the transadion. But it the % late relations between the two Courts be taken into considerationif this proceeding be examined, as far as it is direded against an Ally who always concluded himself in a faithful and honourable man ner, it is 'difficult to mark the heinotis deed with the term it deserves.• It . ' will stand single on the page of history down to the.latest time. "At a period when his Imperial Majesty seemed anxious to relieve oppressed Rulers and Countries — When he seemed sure of the danger _which threat cited all Europe=-His Majesty, animated by the same- sentiments, continued with him 'in close alliance, placing implicit confidence - "iii .a triend, a relation,. an independent' Monarch. tlitfftnssian Emperor had entered into engagetnenti - tenetieial to the general cause, and tending to checklhe destruc tive ambition of France. He was 'sufficiently pow erful to fulfil those engagethents. Majes. ty therefore joined film as a friendanimated bYlhe same sen:itnents, and is new invaded by cause he was his Ally.- • Never could a' Prince linter into •sitiiiltir,en.;. gagemeuts with *nether Plivver with stronger beriek of t heir beingsecurely fulfilled. TheEinperor had been : personally calumniated by the:french Government the Russian Government had kieen calumniated, and publicly proclaimed as savages and barbarians. (2)— A people, 'thei barbarity of whese manners apd ways of life 'must be universally Abhorred. Go-; vernment was intimately interwoven_ with the cOm rnon interest ; how then could any mistrust or suspition possibly,be harboured, when the Emperor expressly declared.—' That hit should rejetVall of fers of Peace, however advantageous they might be, which could not be4econoiled wttG th(4 honour of the Russian naine, the secarity Ofibe Country, the interest of his Allies, and die general tranquillity of Europe (3).' • . _ ‘,‘ How far this declaration is consistent with. the Peace of Tilsit has already been declared by the pre ' , sent age, and posterity will ot6rin the doom. 'l,lli King stood on the . theatre; f War, and wasnot*- quaiiited with the Negotiations fiir airAriniSiice and Peace until the.latter was concluded, contrary to the express stipulation of the Treaty Concluded between Sweden and. .Russia on the of January, tBO5, Art. IX. • The intelligence of this unexpe&ed. eifent was followed by an offer to contribute to the Conclusion of Peace (4), which. induced his 'Majesty 'to' renew the demand of an armistice (which was 'stipulated in the Treaty of Tilsit), but met with a denial, and then learned to appreciate the Value of the co-opera tion of Russia. The King being now unable to defend any longer his German dominions, was obliged to surrender them. After this' loss, occa sioned by the secession of .Russia, his ROyal Majesty left, the theatre' of war, and merely endeavoizred to enjoy in his kingdom that tranquillity which he was entitled to expeol from his situation. tie had fill filled his elfgagertients'.With" Russia, and now ex peaed to learn what, under a changed, system, would be done in his favour. " The King had supported the Russian 'operations, with his Ships of War, had -opened to the Emperor► hit' Magazines of warlike storeS, had rejeaed and hardly noticed the offersinade to him by the French Government (5), one of which was, that in case of a rupture with Russia, itithemidst of a War in which he Russian frontiers and the Capital itself were perfealy defenceless, all the Provinces lost in the' reign of CIfARLES XII. shoUld be restored to Sweden, and that besides any.part of the Russian Empire should be procured to the King, which he should require. (i) Johan Sprengtporten. • • (2) General Orders, Vienna, the 23d Brumaire, year 14 (Nov. 14, 1805).—These savage. homes, whose asaistance will; for the last time, be claimed by the Governments of Eu fope.-25th Ifulletin of the Grand Army, s 6 • Nov. 18.5. Were the Creek tenets allowed to be diffused between the Baltic and the Mediterrancint,..we should, soon see our Pro , yinees attacked by swarms of enraged barbarians. A Pro. 'elamation published at. I - lead-quarters, Wirshaw, the agth January, 1807, signed N. BIJOU A P ARTA. • • (3) Russian Manitesto, Aug..3o 1806. (4) General Hu an ttG's letter to Baron WITT tit STACY, Principal Secretary for koreign•Allkirs, of the lath duly, 1807.. (5) General BaRNADOT Tr made an oftbr of Norway to a Swedish Officer, .who was taken prisoner; the French Mi. niter Houk itsitis offered to the Swedish charge tr./Oiling; Nenel the o4th el November,. 1806; Central C,aatiOJAAN to Colonel-Baran TA WAIT, the 27th of May, tail, any ax. tension of the Swedish Frontiers that might be Litiitad Cafe °la rujturc with Russia. f' lis 'Royal . Majesty' is far fom claiming any • '.• praise tor .. baying rejected such offers, but his right' Of eiwe6ling honourable proCeedings from the Power spared was strengthened by his condu&. The ten , dency - , and bearings 'of the Secret Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit, which were first suspeaed to exist, and-afterwards acknowledged by the — Russian nistry,- began. to appear. The terrific menaces of France to hem in the whole Continent of Europe, and shut against the English trade, commenced to - be'carried into effecq, and to,spread misery and . want from port to port, and throughout continental Europe from' State to State. The Government was permitted to a& according, to its own judgment and experience, and no medium acknowledged between vassals and foes. Peace meant confederacy—confe 'deracy,seletaion—and principles, laws, and, sys tems,weAdiatated by France to her so styled inde kndent, liies, who humbly received them from Fitris, 'unmindful of the wounds which they should iAflia on the common welfare. " Preparations for a rupture with England - were made in St. Petersburgli as early as last Autumn; and , merely a convenient season was waited for a to carry them into execution, when, by a Note of the 6th of 06tober,• it was propcised to his Majesty to co operati in the same manner as in 1790, in an at tempt to shut the Baltic against foreign Ships of . War. His Royal Majesty returned for answer, under date of the lath Of Noveniber; that as lotek,:as .the French Government was lording it over so' Considerable -a . part of the southern parts cic,,the - Bahia, and praCtisiug its: exelud. ing systein, there could be no tranquillity in the Baltic; wherefore his Imperial Majesty must first prevail on the French to quit them; and as the above demand was repeated the 27th of the said month, and compliance was required as an : obligee . tion arising from the Convention of the year 1780,.. it was fully stated in 'a 'reply given the e Ist Jam. nuary lest, that by the Convention concluded between itussia''ind'E.ngland, in the year 3 8.01; and to which • Sweden acceded by i dle express desire of Reisies . and under her own :guarantee, the former armed oeutreliiyiwas perfealy , done away. That his Ma* jesty then entered into (Urea engagements with England, which he could not in justice violate al long . as that Power =tinned to fulfil them on its part. : That along With the other armed neutralitYs the stipulation to shut the Baltic naturally fell to the ground ; a stipulation which Was the leap fitted for the present circumstances, at the former Danish N . avi then reckoned epoe, did no longer exist, and as England bad besides opened a passa g e through, the Great Belt, but that as SWedeo was not et liberm ty to contribute with• an armed 'force to preserve tranquillity in, the •-Baltic, , she would • endeavour to obtain,. by negotiation with England, that the latter should send. ,thither no Ships of War, unlese ; some ,other PoWer rendered that measure necessary by 'hostilities committed in that Sea. "That Sweden should serve Russia for a bulwark, since ehehad been pleased to provoke Eegland—that 6 Seredeni , shetdd sacrifice her Fleet and her Toile tot l'161:a C e rplo.69,7Lac4tropss'ai certainly asking too.muebr, 1-10stil were immediately comma upon the Russian Frontiers. " 'Hie Royal Majesty, however,, still I,o9ked with. indifference- on them,, as long as no-grievance had been started to him, and no claim preferred. " The offer to obtain by negotiation. the trail. ckuillity of the Baltic,. opened prospeas of peace and profit for Russia, a n d 'for the whole North 0 Eur Ope, and therefore apparently could not be le ' ' fuseri.'''* " The Ports. of Russia could then have condon ed ' their trade undisturbed, and this trade could:not bat prove extremely desirable -to his Imperial Majes t y after an unfortunate war and a still more unfortunate Peace. The offer was made on the supposition of :England's consent, which there were strong grounds to expett, end his Majesty hoped to .obtain it, before the English '.Fleet, ,which was so much - dreaded, • should •be able , • to , reach the Baltic. -A direa answer to this offer being avoidedo • his Majesty's Ambassador w as directed the 15th of February to matte :remonstrances on that stlbje( . *o when at once all official comm u n ications with Sr: den "vv.4 1 . ,e tvoken otf," and-the Russian Troops enterffl Vinland with the following Proclamation : • [The Proelamations addressed to th e Swedish SoldiVl°ll.. the Arnytio!finiand, and to the Inhab ionis of that COI try t s 4 irge.alteacty been given at tull length. , ] • : `f Every lawful Government , every manly and honourable Soldier, every faithful Subje6t, on' demos this proceeding. This sudden . invas ion of a friendly Country, commenced with treacheo rolls attempts to stir up revolt, , is • tieptedf4a dented even in our times, otherwise , so rich an in stanceof themost unwarrantable ears of violence nn 4 despotism. The Russian Empire, allied with Fran is not sufficiently powerful to overcome the resist . once of a province which, on account of the seasta i ,ii 'entirely- left to itself. Treachery and rebellion ' '; 'must riledbe in for assistance.. • ' " The Government endeavou - s to buy the Peg' h•, ~ ple in a mass, and seduce them by offers of hsPPII: